Hi! I’m a journalist at The Verge. I cover technology, gaming, and more.
Below are select highlights of my work. You can see all of my writing for The Verge on my author page. On Bluesky, I’m @jaypeters.net.
With the Switch, technology finally caught up to Nintendo
I wrote about how the failed Wii U helped pioneer ideas that Nintendo evolved into a huge success with the Switch and, presumably, the Switch 2.
Expedition 33’s big twist was designed to ‘inflict the pain on the player’
I interviewed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s creative director and lead writer about a pivotal moment in the game.
The creator of Papers, Please wants developers to make weirder, more personal games
My interview with Lucas Pope at GDC 2025.
Why Balatro’s developer stays anonymous
I talked with two staffers at Playstack, which publishes Balatro, about why LocalThunk, the game’s developer, hasn’t revealed his identity.
Indie studio Heart Machine is experimenting with Patreon because ‘money is tough to come by’
I spoke with Heart Machine, the developers behind games like Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash, about its Patreon.
7 cool indie games from GDC 2025
Here are 7 games my colleague Andrew Webster and I liked at GDC 2025. (My favorite was Faraway.)
How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
Elon Musk’s Twitter, one year later
Former Kotaku writers are launching a new video game site — and they own it this time
Polygon’s new owner says it will ‘do what’s right for Polygon’
Epic has a plan for the rest of the decade (interviews with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and EVP Saxs Persson)
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
The best indie games we’re playing right now
I’ve been a key contributor to making this storystream (in Verge parlance) of articles and reviews about indie games The Verge recommends.
Citizen Sleeper 2 is the good kind of stressful
Meta Quest 3S review: probably the one we’ve been waiting for
LiveNOW from FOX: Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders sold out
CBS News: Bluesky picking up steam as alternative to X
CBC News: ELI5: What’s the deal with the Reddit blackout? | About That
TikTok video about Nintendo’s efforts to beat Switch 2 pre-order scalpers
Instagram video about Linda Yaccarino and Yoel Roth at Code 2023
A Vergecast episode about the protests on Reddit in 2023
Before The Verge, I worked at Techmeme and WE Communications.
I drafted accepted emoji proposals for:
🫡 Saluting Face (one of two accepted proposals for Saluting Face)
🫧 Bubbles
🧇 Waffle
🥱 Yawning Face
I also wrote a story for The Verge about how I made the yawning face and waffle emoji.
I like to run long distances and have completed four marathons:
In 2010, I played bass drum for the University of Oregon Marching Band and nearly ran over a camera person at the Rose Bowl.